How to Grow a Baby’s Brain

How does a baby’s brain develop? Do you plop them in front of some Baby Einstein DVD’s with a Mozart soundtrack?

Hell no. The brain is designed for movement, and movement is what wires it up. To grow a child’s brain, give them a safe place to play.

Here’s an amazing video of Charles-Edward, a nine month old boy who knows how to go to work. Check out what he does when given four hours to play in a room full of toys. Filmed and time lapsed down to two minutes by his father Francis:

Beautiful. Well done Charles, you are well on your way to world domination.

What may look like chaos here is actually a series of highly controlled movement experiments performed one after the other by a master scientist. Every second Charles is making a plan, checking the results, comparing the resulting data to expectation, and then making adustments for the next round of experiments.

I hear you Todd,if you dont want them to get hurt or die,thats level 1. Level 2, wanting to perserve personal possesions and pets. With this being number 3 kid, spread out over 26 years, the eyes of a 59 year old who is interested in this stuff see alot.What I see is the contents of this blog with a bit more angst thrown in.Its fun to see theory in action.